August 16, 2010 | Celeb Watch

But Pee Wee is right handed!

Way back in 1991, Paul Reubens - the man behind Pee Wee Herman -  was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida. The resulting media storm stalled his acting career and Pee Wee was tucked away in a trunk somewhere.

Now hoping to resurrect his famous character, Reubens is talking to the press. And in a new interview with 'Playboy' magazine the actor spoke about his arrest.

“Had we gone to trial, we had ready an expert from the Masters and Johnson Institute who was going to testify that in 30 years of research on masturbation the institute had never found one person who masturbated with his or her non-dominant hand,” Reubens says. “I’m right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn’t have been me.”

Instead he pleaded no contest in hopes of quickly ending the whole ordeal.

And as long as Pee Wee can keep both his hands off his pee pee in public he should have an easy ride back into mainstream.

Paul Reubens Defends Masturbation Arrest [The Advocate]